Feelings:
Kotre, John N.
band's career went into decline. Her democracy; and, finally, the command of which he threatened the very foundations strong-willed driving ambition was in- United Nations forces...
...self-glorifying communiques through terpretations are generally acute and perYet no more than young Roosevelt or which he generally reported them...
...vidualistic...
...At another, it becomes so The continual blare of high-decibel emoautocratic ruler of Japan and imposed aloof that we seem, deep down, to be tions may eventually deafen...
...but it calls for further development...
...in ways so fatal that to liberal minds they ambition, conjoined with basic psychoThus, when he entered West Point in make his faults more memorable than his logical insecurities...
...it "retreats into privacy for series has served as a gauge for the best in both volumes...
...the Willard Gaylin, M.D...
...How hunger, Fernando Bastos de Avila insists Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter experi- significant these issues have become for that if we are to find a solution to hunger ences shame, but her partner in adultery, U.S...
...cern about these issues, or does it simply elimination...
...Christians and theologians is less we must see it not simply as a problem the Reverend Dimmesdale, suffers silent certain...
...fused in her son during his formative It was a career as brilliant as the man Always the root of his trouble was an years, and she stuck to him like glue who made it, but flawed as he was flawed overweening egotism and wilfulness and thereafter...
...As CONCILIQM: 104 cilium...
...touch with themselves...
...Hester Prynne in reflect pressing, major concerns...
...His think it so unhealthy to meet the expectaknowledge of psychoanalysis is diluted tions of others, to sacrifice "me" for with so large a measure of good sense the cleansing cycle of guilt, confession, "us...
...But and forgiveness...
...At West Point greatest of his "end runs") is over- master of both descriptive and narrative he won his "A" on the baseball team, shadowed by his gross miscalculations of prose-a supreme master, I would say, managed the football team, became First Communist China's psychology and of what might be called participatory Captain of the Corps (the highest possi- capabilities, whereby the initiation of prose, in that the reader is at once caught ble cadet rank), and graduated number nuclear holocaust was risked...
...Atlantic got the better of it, a CONCILIOM: 105 question of the connection between povchapter paying tribute to guilt, an emo- "CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIALISM" erty and monopoly capitalism still retion that "serves the noblest, most Jean-Pierre Jossua and Johann mains small...
...ing tired, feeling proud, feeling good, His praise is a minor theme in Feelings, generous sharing of knowledge that and so on...
...history...
...For weal or woe, both emotions North American theologian, Gregory requires imagination and reason...
...The inner wall, the book deliberately bypas- tional garbage...
...of constitutional democracy...
...In the past decade, therapeutic the organizing top command of armed A CONSIDERABLE amount of technology has striven to connect us with forces for the newly created Philippine psychotherapeutic energy is being inner feelings by turning up their volCommonwealth (he was made Field devoted these days to getting people "in ume...
...expiation, that hopes for absolution but raised in these volumes unquestionably Writing on the church and world will accept punishment...
...Humilia- psychotherapy wants nothing to do with mythology that is consummately indition is not shame, is not embarrassment...
...distortive of his perceptions of objective relations with other women: his first mar- His series of strategic masterpieces in reality that it ultimately incapacitated riage ended in divorce because of "mat- the South Pacific, where his mastery of him for his role as soldier of democracy...
...were really feeling, we would become stint as Army Chief of Staff (the youngest John N. Kotre "self-actualized" or "fully functionin history) in the late '20s and early '30s;, ing...
...One-third and beneficent emotion-for shame re- Arthur F. McGovern of the authors are from Third World quires an audience while guilt precludes countries, primarily from Latin America...
...To solve a problem guilt...
...Apparently physical contact, the acting out of fantasy Army) from the mid-'30s until Pearl numbers of us have erected a wall be- in the presence of a group, individuals Harbor...
...Guilt interferes with without...
...A field "letting it all hang out...
...Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin would 27 April 1979: 247 have us get in touch with ourselves, but Though Gaylin fails to do justice to the breaks we must make as we climb our his approach is far quieter...
...At a time when need to be not merely honest but to ses the worn landmarks of sex and ag- impose your awareness of the truth self-assertive models of health are the gression and steers us to the small pas- vogue, he has the courage to praise the on others is more often an act of sions of everyday life: feeling upset, feel- violence and aggression than the restraints implanted by shame and guilt...
...Does the presence of only one but as a "scandal...
...Boredom is not In other work, Gaylin has argued for We live in an age that seems to ennui...
...Alois Miller and Norbert Greinacher tried to awaken us to issues of world Excerpts from Feelings have already Seabury, $4.95 hunger and the poor in our midst...
...The opening essay repair...
...Her maternal posses- use of troops against unarmed unem- of pure Good vs...
...what remains the third highest academic acts which closed it-his repeated de- He has written a notable book which may record in Academy history...
...it purports to be...
...And the up in it and carried along by it, as if he one in the Class of '03, having made whole of his career is darkened byy the himself took part in the events described...
...Shame is public agony over O VER the past ten years the Concilium Their contributions, moreover, are the wrongdoing...
...The malaises created by the bar- is curious that no therapist has observed War II...
...One can hardly fault the Chrisenvy separates us from our fellows, iden- "THE POOR AND THE CHURCH" tian groups and theologians who have tification joins them to us...
...other" is salvific...
...Popular guilt is out of place in a psychological naming them more accurately...
...It is cognitive: guilt as a religious (as opposed to a psy- separate ladders of self-fulfillment...
...At an international level, the issues plains why...
...The only true antagonist of envy .. . is identification...
...In Feelings Gaylin offers a lexi- worship candor...
...Why Many of Gaylin's observations are as -Feelings do most of our psychological guides everyday as his subject matter...
...upon it the spirit and forms of American hollow...
...fiance of the authority of the President of well stand up, permanently, as the definiThe career thus begun is well-known the United States, in Korea in 1950, by tive biography of MacArthur...
...Reaching the alien within ling over: "Feeling touched is the re- crawl, and to forgive is to set oneself up may be salubrious, but what of the alien sponse to the unexpected bonus...
...Not until she died, age 84, run...
...feeling for the next blow...
...Through nonverbal exercises, Marshal after resigning from the U.S...
...SCAP) during which he was in effect the no reason...
...His path to glory led through the "police action" against Mexico in 1916...
...His suasive, his historical judgments generStevenson was young MacArthur a sis- triumphant operation at Inchon (the ally well-informed and balanced...
...the amazing service as Supreme rier are varied...
...It believes that to feel the concern of the actualized or the cry of there are subtleties one finds oneself mul- guilt is to be encumbered, to confess is to the desperate...
...generous and humane character traits that Baptist Metz The growing influence of Third World distinguish our species...
...Guilt is just the opposite: private most important theological issues of the in The Poor and the Church perhaps exagony that wants exposure, that needs day...
...Of all the virtues, containment of the individual, for "putcon of almost classical labels for the ting it back where it belongs" instead of candor has always seemed to me nuances of inner experience...
...His psychological inhis dying mother had approved...
...he asks...
...Jealousy is not envy...
...ernal interference," according to the di- the indirect approach (the long "end Such a man presents highly difficult vorced wife...
...The nuances of inner experience brave, brilliant service in France during World War I as colonel, the brigadier FEELMGS: Despite its capacity for terror, general in the 42nd ("Rainbow") Divi- OUR VITAL SIGNS therapists promise that contacting this sion, which he helped organize...
...an audience...
...It ward as the Allies advanced, in World "me...
...Guilt, says Seabury, $4.95 theologians, on the other hand, is quite Gaylin, is not shame-an equally painful evident in these two volumes...
...A protect the interests of the collectivity, Baum, among the thirty contributors to scandal requires the exercise of an imshame in homogeneous societies, guilt in both volumes suggest a relative uncon- passioned imagination, of shame, for its heterogeneous ones like our own...
...of Power and Honor and Glory so inhim to Harvard, as Adlai Stevenson's His solid accomplishments as Chief of tensely he almost made it come true on followed him to Princeton-establishing Staff, for instance, are overshadowed in important occasions, he was the selfherself for four years in a hotel below the historic memory by his needlessly brutal appointed star of a self-conceived drama Academy "Plain...
...an unprecedented double- Harper and Row, $10., 223 pp...
...If only we knew who superintendency of West Point in the we really were, if only we knew what we early 1920s...
...A we know our feelings better not by ex- chological) experience, his positive em- mechanism that benefits the communal, periencing them more intensely but by phasis sorely needs to be heard...
...At one extreme, the alien that, in the long run, excessively loud Commander for the Allied Powers within instills a fright for which we know stimuli damage the hearing apparatus...
...and, finally, the command of which he threatened the very foundations strong-willed driving ambition was in- United Nations forces in Korea...
...But the appeared in Psychology Today and the number who have raised the "structural" Atlantic...
...the swift, surprising flank move- challenges to any serious biographer of in 1935, when her son was 55, did he ment) classed him with the greatest cap- him, but William Manchester rises to marry happily-and his second wife, nee tains (Marlborough, say, or Lee), are them triumphantly in this meticulously Jean Faircloth, was a woman of whom discredited by remembrance of the lying, researched work...
...the supreme command of Allied tween "me" and a strange area of inner awaken dead emotions and "re-own" forces in the South Pacific, then north- experience that could not possibly be feelings they have projected outward...
...Commonweal: 248...
...To feel used is to feel that our services have been separated from Theology in the face of a scandal ourselves...
...Identification reflect the European origins of Coninvolves fusion of fate and feeling...
...pure Evil-a drama so siveness had divisive effects upon his ployed in Hoover's Washington of 1932...
...hurt is the result of the entitlement not received...
...He is a sified "mamma's boy...
...Is untrammeled self-expression that the book doesn't seem profound...
...Histrionic and 1899 his mother followed him there-as virtues, his failures more memorable paranoid, living an anachronistic dream Franklin Roosevelt's mother followed than his triumphs...
...What right do I (with the possible exception of guide to the alien territory beyond the have to litter the environs with my emohumility) the least attractive...
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